PIEGA Launch Premium Range Loudspeakers At Bristol Show
The new generation of PIEGA Premium loudspeakers from Switzerland feature the companies new LDR 3056 high-range ribbon tweeter in it’s top of the range model.
Sound Fowndations At The Bristol Show 2018
Sound Fowndations are this year making their exhibit more ‘Bristol-friendly’ by pitching it at what most of the show-goers seem to want. Previously they have had one room with a ‘big’ system: Clearaudio Innovation, DS Master One, Gamut amps and speakers etc, with the system price coming to well over £50k.
Harbeth To Demo New Limited Edition Product At Sound & Vision Bristol 2018
Harbeth Audio Ltd. announced a third release of new limited edition products, continuing the celebrations of their 40th Anniversary year, in December 2017
Brainwavz Introduces Quad Balanced Armature B400 Earphones To The UK
Brainwavz, established in 2008 with a focus on offering ‘high quality products at a competitive price’, has announced its B400 Quad Balanced Armature Earphones in the UK.
Exposure XM Series HP Headphone Amp, Hear it First At The Bristol Show
In 2017, British brand Exposure launched the ‘XM’ series of hifi components, packing high-end features into a compact and affordable design. New to the series and launching at Bristol 2018 is the XM HP headphone amplifier.
Focal Introduces New Built-In Speakers
2018 sees the launch of two new built-in speaker ranges from Focal, with the introduction of the all new entry-level 100 Series and additional products added to the mid-priced 300 Series.
Japanese Glanz Tonearms Arrive At The Bristol Show
Devon-based Timestep has signed an exclusive distribution agreement to import Glanz tonearms from their native Japan to the UK. Visit Timestep at Sound & Vision Bristol to discover them.
REVIEW – Musical Fidelity M6 Encore Connect Multi Format Audio Streamer
Musical Fideity’s M6 Encore Connect is a ripper, streamer and preamplifier all in one handy, if substantial box. It costs £3629 and Lionel Payne hooked it up to his system to see if it came up to scratch.
432EVO Master Music Server Released
We first came across the Belgian 432EVO Master Music server at High End Munich 2017, it is now available to buy.
Soulution Introduces “Leedh Processing” To 760 & 560 DACs
Soulution is the first high end electronics manufacturer in the world to license “Leedh Processing” for its D/A converters 560 and 760. “Leedh Processing” is an algorithm for increasing or decreasing the volume level of a digital music signal.
Feliks Audio Desktop Valve Amplifier
Feliks Audio, a Polish based manufacturer of hand crafted tube amplifiers, has released a prototype of their new desktop amplifier that can power both speakers and headphones.
British Grove Studios Uses Prism Sound
Prism Sound, manufacturer of the Callia hifi DAC, pre-amplifier and headphone amp, has seen a significant investment in its pro products by Mark Knopfler’s British Grove Studios, buying enough PT-HDX compatible interface cards to ensure that every one of its Prism Sound ADA-8XR multichannel converters can now connect to its six Pro Tools® HDX™ systems.
Hifi Pig News Round Up – January 2018
Catch up on all the Hifi News and Hifi Reviews that we covered in the first month of 2018…
Bryston And StormAudio Announce Collaboration
Bryston has announced that they will be working in collaboration with StormAudio, an audio hardware manufacturer based in France, enabling both companies to, they day, “leverage their respective design and manufacturing expertise in an array of new product offerings”. As a byproduct of the cooperative effort, Bryston will be unveiling an SP4 surround processor and […]
REVIEW – Linn Klimax DS (KATALYST) – Dedicated Streamer
Linn’s Klimax DS is a dedicated streamer with just an ethernet input to connect to your music library and yet it costs almost £16 000. Can Linn justify this high price with an equally stunning performance? Dan Worth finds out.
Quad Expands Its Artera line With The Solus
Quad, the British audio brand, has kicked off its 83rd year by adding a one-box hifi system to the Artera Series, Quad’s primary solid-state component range. The Artera Solus combines a CD transport, DAC, preamplifier and power amplifier in a single compact chassis, with connectivity options including Bluetooth wireless streaming.